Author: Symin Chan | New Bloom Magazine

The Broken Dreams Of Hong Kong’s Young: An Interview With Nora Lam, Director Of Lost In The Fumes

Symin Chan05/24/2018

Nora Lam is most recently the director of Lost in the Fumes, a documentary about Hong Kong localist Edward Leung. Lam has also worked on films including directing Midnight in Mong Kok and co-directing Road Not Taken. The following interview was conducted on May 9th by New Bloom editors Brian Hioe and Symin Chan during a visit by Lam to Taiwan...

EnglishInterviewsMay 201845 min read

香港年輕世代的幻滅：專訪《地厚天高》導演林子穎

Symin Chan05/23/2018

林子穎導演近期的紀錄片作品《地厚天高》，主要拍攝香港本土派人士梁天琦。林子穎另有其他影像創作，執導《旺角黑夜》，並擔任《未竟之路》其中一位導演。  以下是破土成員詹斯閔與丘琦欣和她的訪談。...

InterviewsMay 2018中文7 min read

Culture Has Nothing To Do With Politics?: The History Of The Taiwanese Record Industry During The Japanese Colonial Period

Symin Chan08/07/2017

In the 1930s, Taiwan had a lively, energetic, and plentiful record industry. But this history has been forgotten with the destruction and fragmentation of historical materials by the KMT...

Arts and CultureAugust 2017EnglishMusic7 min read

文化與政治無關？你所不知道的日本時代台灣唱片業

Symin Chan08/05/2017

2017 年初，剛上市就紅遍世界的電腦遊戲《返校》選用《月夜愁》、《望春風》等台語歌曲作配樂。2017 年，金曲獎最佳台語男歌手由台南歌手謝銘祐奪得，他在專輯《舊年》裡也大量運用日本時代台語流行歌元素。究竟日本時代的台語流行歌藏有什麼瑰寶，值得一提再提？...

Arts and CultureJuly 2017Music中文1 min read

太陽花運動揭示的台灣現狀

Symin Chan07/04/2014

2014 年 3 月 18 日夜晚，一群台灣青年衝入立法院議場，佔領議會超過 20 天，抗議立委貿然和中國簽署《服務貿易協定》。這波被稱為「太陽花運動」的抗議，不僅衝破了台灣民主的黑幕，更使得許多原本對政治冷漠的台灣人，開始正視台灣的民主危機，連帶地掀起後續大規模的公民參與浪潮。同時，太陽花運動也揭示了台灣政治、經濟和社會各層面，長期以來潛藏的問題。...

July 2014Social MovementsYouth Movements中文1 min read

What the Sunflower Movement unveiled for Taiwan

Symin Chan07/04/2014

On the night of March 18th 2014, a number of Taiwanese young people rushed into the Legislative Yuan, and began an occupation of the legislative chamber that lasted over 20 days in protest of the Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services (CSSTA) which had been passed by legislators without detailed examination...

EnglishJuly 2014Social MovementsYouth Movements7 min read

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Symin Chan

The Broken Dreams Of Hong Kong’s Young: An Interview With Nora Lam, Director Of Lost In The Fumes

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Culture Has Nothing To Do With Politics?: The History Of The Taiwanese Record Industry During The Japanese Colonial Period

文化與政治無關？你所不知道的日本時代台灣唱片業

Symin Chan

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